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years for purposefully giving a baby a lethal injection and possibly killing dozens more may be about to walk free. and all because of a legal leap hole in texas. plus, brand-new disturbing video of one of the free oklahoma teenagers accused of gunning down a college baseball star from australia. his homeland is up in arms over the senseless crime and the unimaginable motive. and if all of that talk of the nsa tracking phone calls and e-mails wasn't enough, wait until you hear about the network that they use to track our internet activity. better watch where you click. hello, everyone. welcome to "legal view," i'm ashleigh banfield. it's wednesday, august 21st. i want to begin with the school shooting in georgia, an elementary school. an image without question you just never want to see. children ages 4 through 10 running for their lives because
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a gunman is discharging an ak inside their school. we are so glad to report that no one was hurt at this time and the alleged shooter brandon hill is now behind bars and he is facing multiple charges. our david mattingly is live in decatur, georgia. what have you been able to find out about this particular suspect and his background? >> reporter: ashley, michael brandon hillary was in trouble with the law before he came to this elementary school back in march. he was arrested for terroristic threats and acts and we spoke to the d.a. at a neighboring county where the arrest took place. he said that hill threatened to kill his brother via a text message. well, he was arrested, he was charged, he went before a judge and his sentence was three years probation. he was ordered not to go anywhere near his brother and his family members. also, he was told to take anger management classes and the d.a. says there's no indication that he ever took any of those
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classes. but as far as why he showed up here at this school is still something of a mystery. we know that he spoke to the two women that he took hostage in the office when he first arrived and one of those women actually was ordered to make a phone call to a local television station because he wanted to tell that station that he was not afraid to die and that he wanted them here to capture the moment when he killed police officers. fortunately, none of that ever happened. he never left the office. he fired about six shots at officers, didn't hit anyone, they returned fire, no one was hurt and was actually one of those office employees who convinced him to give himself up without incident and without anyone being harmed here. ashleigh? >> david, tell me about her. i'm hearing her name is antoinette tuff and she's an absolute hero. >> reporter: that's right. this is really remarkable. a tremendous show of bravery by this woman under extreme
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circumstances. she convinced this young man to take off his backpack, which we're told had ammunition in it and to give himself up and to lay down on the floor so that officers could come in and arrest him. and she gave some details to abc and to a local affiliate here. listen to what she had to say. >> he said that no one loved him and i told him that i loved him, that it was going to be okay and we were going to get out safely and i told him if he would just go ahead and surrender, since he didn't hurt anyone, i would stay there with him until they came to get him. so i walked through taking everything out of his pocket, taking all of the magazines that he had loaded, all of the additional weapons and everything that he had on him out of the bag and put the bag on the counter along with everything else. >> reporter: and just listen to her, how calm, how methodical
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she was able to talk to him under such duress, ashleigh. she is responsible for making sure that miracle happened here today, or yesterday, that everyone got out of here without harm. >> oh, without question. david mattingly, thank you for that report in decatur, georgia. especially since newtown, schools are on high alert. kids are either back in school or headed. take a look at this drill. i want to repeat, it's a drill. it's a simulation done by local law enforcement agencies in new jersey just yesterday. that is just astounding to see that. i'm happy to report a lot of these are actors but it looks and sounds so real. listen in. >> inside the school i'm getting confirmation we have a shooter on the campus floor. >> the actors were playing the roles of anguished parents looking for information and looking for their kids. this drill cost officials
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$140,000 to actually do and the department of homeland security paid for it so that police and others know what they are supposed to do in the event of a real shooting, god forbid a shooting like newtown. i want to bring in jeff parks, a homeland security official and a vet for georgia county school resource officers and he's got one of the topics that he deals with, which is preparing for an active shooter. jeff, it's so timely that i've had a chance to speak with you. given what happened yesterday, you were probably surprised to see those kids. did they do everything that they were supposed to do? >> ashleigh, thanks for having me and i think they did an outstanding job. and that young lady, while i didn't deal with the faculty themselves but the school resource officers did an outstanding job of keeping calm and keeping this guy focused on her and allowing others to stay
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put. to answer your question, you know, of course from the media coverage, it looked like they were working on doing everything as best they could. there are always things that i think we could do better but i have talked to dekalb county police officers and resource officers. a great success. >> i want to ask you about the woman antoinette tuff and our david mattingly just spoke with her. this man was holding an ak-47. is that what the school officials should do? should they engage a shooter? >> well, like so many things when you're dealing with a threat to life and to people, it's very situational-dependent. what she did do, in my opinion again, was keeping calm, keeping him focused and by talking to him and engaging him, she didn't
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have much choice, from the local report, of course but she could have done the wrong thing but she had him face-to-face and talking to him and keeping him calm, her staying calm and keeping him away from the kids and hopefully alerting the administration that they did have an active shooting scenario in place. >> jeff parks, thank you. thank you for the work that you're doing. a lot of teachers could benefit from your information and guidance. jeff parks, joining us live, thanks. coming up at 3:00 eastern here on cnn, we're going to speak with the police chief about the shooting and give us details about what happened in this incident yesterday. bradley manning sentenced to 35 years in prison and also given a dishonorable discharge. the united states soldier leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group wikileaks.
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he's be credited for the 3 1/2 years that he's already served. he's required to serve one-third of that sentence before he's eligible for parole. and then later, i'm going to speak with the attorney for julian assange, the lawyer for wikileaks. we were anxiously awaiting, will he or won't he testify? nidal hasan killed 13 people and he's defending himself in court. when it came time for him to present a case, he said, no thanks. he didn't even call a witness, not even himself, which would have been odd. closing arguments are expected to begin at 9:00 tomorrow in the morning. if he's convicted, he does face a possible death sentence. egypt's former president hosni mubarak could soon be out from behind those cages a free man. state media is reporting than an
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egyptian court has ordered him to be released from prison. he was convicted for not preventing slaughters in 2011. he was sentenced to life in prison but a court accepted his appeal for retrial. why isn't he being held pending retrial? a law does not allow it. and michael hastings died in a car accident back in june. the 33-year-old was likely killed within seconds when his mercedes slammed into a tree in los angeles. he may have been using marijuana to treat ptsd but it was unlikely that it was a factor in the deadly accident. one of the young man accused of being a killer in a college baseball slaying. look at these pictures. that baseball player was just out for a jog and ended up dead. this is 15-year-old james edward
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waves across the united states and all the way around the world in australia. a talented australian baseball player living his dream here in the u.s., instead dead, shot in the back while out for a jog. the suspect's three teenagers, 15-year-old james edwards, 16-year-old chancey luna and 17-year-old michael jones. the motive? simply that they were bored. social media shows edwards, the youngest, the 15-year-old laughing and showing off a rifle. here is cnn's elena mochato. >> reporter: a frantic call by a woman who found him dead while out for a jog. >> is he breathing? he is conscious? is he talking to you at all? >> he's not conscious.
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>> reporter: the university student from australia was the victim of three teens on a mission to kill. >> this was in the second interview of the 17-year-old, he was asked why they did it and he basically said, we were bored. we didn't have anything to do and so we killed somebody. he was our target. >> reporter: james edward jr. and chancey luna is charged as adults. >> i'm going to ensure that we see these three thugs pay for what they did to christopher lane. >> reporter: the father of one of the accused has said that he's also suffered a loss. >> our family is hurting. i'm hurting the same way. i'm crying right here from the heart right now. >> reporter: lane's college baseball coach described him as kind hearted with a magnetic personality. the murder has sparked outrage in australia where prime
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minister tim fisher has cautioned australians about going to america. he says, in part, tourists thinking of going to the usa should think twice. i am deeply angry about this, not just because of the callous attitude of the three teenagers but it's a sign of the proliferation of guns on the ground in the usa. elena ma chat toe, cnn. >> joining me now is danny cevallos. i want to talk to you about the circumstances in this story. had we not been talking about a 15-year-old, this is without question a death penalty-eligible crime. isn't it? >> absolutely. as you know, the supreme court ruled unconstitutional in 2005 death penalty for juveniles but they will be charged with first-degree murder as adults. they won't get any protection under the juvenile justice code
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nor will they be charged as juvenile offenders in oklahoma. they will be charged as adults. the only question at this point, the only question mark is why the driver, jones, has only been charged with accessory after the fact. what you're going to see in the defense of these three individuals is that each of them is going to start playing hot potato and that hot potato is the trigger man. who pulled the trigger? and you better believe that initially the statements they all gave statements that said i didn't do it. >> so if you could just quickly tell me, if you find -- if a jury finds -- if it ever gets to a jury -- that there is a guilt in the case of the murder, what is the maximum that a 17-year-old charged as an adult and a 16-year-old charged as an adult can face and then what's the maximum for the 17-year-old just charged with accessory? >> okay. so for the two charged with first-degree murder, they are facing life. for the 17-year-old -- and it's interesting because oklahoma has very big differences between age
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15, 16, and 17. but this 17-year-old, as he's only charged with accessory, his max is half of the maximum you could get for -- that would ever underline felony that he helped with. what does that translate with based on his prior record score, only a judge or a jury will ultimately decide. >> wow. a lot more than i thought just as an accessory he can face a significant amount of time. danny, thank you for that. we'll continue to watch and see what transpires in those hearings that are set to continue. a nurse who killed an infant and possibly murdered dozens of others could soon walk out of prison free unless other charges are brought up against her. >> she's not getting out. she's not going to get out. if my son has to be exhumed to prove that she murdered him, then that's the step we'll take. >> one mother's promise to keep a woman branded the angel of
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death, genene jones, behind bars for life. randi kaye has the story of the killer nurse coming up next.
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she is suspected of killing as many as 46 children in a 1984 genene jones was convicted and sentenced to 99 years for the murder of a 15-month-old. she got a whole bunch of extra years just to make sure she'd stay behind bars. but after serving a third of her sentence, this former texas nurse may soon be a free woman to walk amongst you and me and everyone else and all because of a loophole in the law. and needless to say, victims' families are furious about this. here is randi kaye on the effort to keep her locked up for good. >> reporter: back in 1982, chelsea mcclen lan, just 15 months old, needed immunizations. peggy took her to the local clinic in texas. but what happened next was anything but routine. that's because genene jones was the nurse on duty at the clinic.
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chelsea's mom remembers what happened next when all hell broke loose. >> she gave her her first shot in her left thigh and she immediately started gasping for air, turned around and gave her another one and she immediately just went limp and quit breathing. >> reporter: in the chaos of rushing chelsea from the clinic to the hospital, genene jones somehow slipped into the ambulance and gave the girl a third shot. peggy would later learn that the nurse injected her daughter with a drug called sectional choline which causes short-term paralysis. it started chelsea's heart. two years later in 1984, jones was convicted and sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing chelsea. plus, 60 years for injuring another child who had survived. to this day, she still says she
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did nothing wrong. >> miss jones, do you have any reaction at all? >> leave me alone. >> do you have anything to say? >> leave me alone. >> reporter: for chelsea's parents, the sentence was bittersweet. their daughter was gone but the killer would spend the rest of her life behind bars. at least that's what they thought. genen. jones is scheduled to walk free. she will be automatically released because of an old texas law designed to prevent prison overcrowding. the mandatory release law for suspects convicted of crimes to be automatically released if their good behavior credit equals their sentence. the law was changed in 1987 to exclude violent criminals but it isn't retroactive. it's now a claim of beat the clock. chelsea's mother and andy, a victim's advocate for the city of houston, are trying to find other mother's whose babies may
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have been killed by genene jones. otherwise, she may be the first serial killer ever to walk free. >> in reality, she would have served less than one year for every infant she has credited with murdering. it's unheard of and it's never happened before in our country's history. >> reporter: sadly, there's reason to believe that other victims exist. when jones worked at bear hospital in san antonio between 1978 and 1982, her shift became known as the death shift because so many babies were mysteriously dying. shari worked alongside her. >> the death rate was higher than it had been in previous months and previous years as i went back. so we started to question, why is that happening? and i also noticed that it tended to concentrate more on the 3:00 to 11:00 shift which was the shift that genene was working mostly. >> reporter: genene jones was
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suspected of killing as many as 46 babies but was only charged in the death of chelsea mcclellan. many of the victims' records were either destroyed or disappeared but so far two mothers have reached out to him. marina lost her son in 1918 after she says genene jones gave him a shot at a san antonio clinic. at just 5 months old he had a heart attack and died. >> all of a sudden he turned blue and i heard code blue and then, you know, of course they put me to the side because i'm a young mommy and i'm freaking out. >> reporter: back then, marina was just 15, too young to afford a lawyer. her parents were migrant farmers. marina couldn't even read. >> reporter: how would you feel if she got out? >> she's not getting out. she's not going to get out. if my son has to be exhumed to prove that she murdered him, then that's the step we'll take.
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they are not dealing with a little girl anymore. this is a woman now. >> reporter: marina rodriguez and the other family's are peggy mcclellan-wiese's only hope. >> it's not justice for chelsea. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn. >> how likely is it that genene jones will walk free? i want to bring in defense attorney and good friend, old friend, midwin charles. does it boil your blood when you hear that a loophole could cause a woman to walk free after 30-ish? >> unfortunately, blood boiling really doesn't have anyplace here. there is a law. whether we like the law or not, it says that because of jail overcrowding between i believe it was 1977 and 1987 in texas,
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prisoners are eligible for release. this woman is eligible for release. if we don't like it, we either change the law and the law was changed but it's not retroactive to her or we look at why the jails are overcrowded to begin with because this is just a symptom of the problem. the problem is, we have too many people and not enough jails and this is the result. >> so midwin, you would think, then, that any kind of revision would look at things retroactive for violent offenders. maybe not for drug offenders. we've been talking about that in the federal system with eric holder's recent moves but can you make something retroactive for do they have to go the additional prosecution route and prosecute her all over again? >> you can find another victim. as you said, there's no statute of limitations on murder but you have to prove that case. so simply just because you charge her for murder, he still
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have to find witnesses from the '80s. you still have to find evidence from the '80s. so who is to say whether or not you could secure a conviction. prison overcrowding truly is a huge issue in this country. each year we admit 600,000 people to prisons and jails. this is just a symptom. this is a huge, huge problem. we've got to find a way to deal with it. >> it's a nice wake-up call when you think about a woman like this et going out. and another question, dealing with an additional prosecuion, if that's the only route to keep her behind bars, rodriguez wants to exhume her own baby to find out if her baby is a victim. but mem ories are corroded and what is the odds that you can get a conviction 30 years later? >> look, it's happened. and with the advent of the technology, we have dna, we have all kinds of investigative tools.
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so the reality is -- and let's be practical. all you do here is enough evidence. more likely than not to get an arrest warrant, to get an indictment, you hold this woman, you keep her behind bars and you put your case together. so if the goal is to keep her in, you can keep her in. >> the fact that her shift was called the death shift, is that anecdotal? >> it's so hard to say whether that evidence will be entered. certainly we don't want to convict someone by a propensity. so to say in a vacuum, is it going to come in? it's hard to tell. but signature crimes, that can come in to evidence. >> and other people were working that shift. >> there were. >> stand by. i have a lot more to attack. thank you, randy and midwin charles. it's like a court tv reunion.
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most of us have gone through those agonizing summer months as an intern for a company and maybe got course credit for it. a lot of people say it's a lot of fun. a lot of people are not complementary of the program but many interns don't get paid for what they do and they work pretty hard. it involves doing a lot of stuff that maybe isn't always part of the deal, like get some coffee, take some phone calls, answer the phones and do it without grumbling because, let's face it, an intern is kind of at the bottom of the food chain, it seems, in most organizations. but an intern who worked for bad boy entertainment is furious about it and she's actually taken to the courts about it. she's suing. if you recognize bad boy, that's p. diddy, the bad boy himself. what is the complaint? what did she have to do, for crying out loud? >> she worked there for six months. she's being represented by a new york law firm.
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the courts have found that you can't use someone as free labor. they have to get something out of it, either course credit or they have to be learning. they can't be replacing another worker. >> you would think that the white house knows about this. there are free interns. and i got you your coffee this morning and i also picked up your dry cleaning. i hope you're okay with it. i hope you're not mad. >> ashleigh banfield is my intern. my dress is wrinkled. you'll have to do it again. christine romans, thank you. the reporter who talked to edward snowden about the nsa leaks is now speaking out about the british government detaining his partner. greenwald has implications about what went on and he is not minutesing wor mincing words. you've got to hear this. sion
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edward snowden stunned the world with details of nsa surveillance of americans phone and e-mail records and now if you look at the wall street journal today it's reporting, it's suggesting that the spy agencies reach is even broader than we first thought. the newspaper's reporting that the nsa has the capacity to reach 75% of all u.s. internet
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traffic. just imagine that volume. it also keeps copies of e-mails sent between citizens within the united states and that it can also filter domestic phone calls. albeit certain phone calls made in certain ways. joining me is joe johns. can you make this really clear, what's so significant about what the wall street journal found out that we didn't know? >> the main thing this report shows is the scope and the capacity of nsa electronic snooping program on the internet. it appears a capacity for nsa to collect 75% of the nation's internet traffic with its programs. the question is how much they're actually keeping and the article says the filtering say the phone calls is done at more than a dozen locations in the u.s.
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where it thought filtering was done outside of country. there's a bit of new information in here. it's all about scope and the way they do things. >> joe, just because the government can access that broad scope of data, does it mean that it is accessing all that data? >> that's very blurry. nsa has made it clear they have the capability to track almost anything that happens, but they say they get court orders to do that. when they want to get something especially specific or sensitive, they have to follow legal standards. they say a lot of this data gets destroyed. obviously, the question will be what are they keeping? we don't know everything because the programs are supposed to be secret. >> what about the court? are they active and engaged in this and our watchdogs or are
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they hanging out on the sidelines? >> that's a good question. talking to people they say the court is active and engaged. the problem is there's no advocate representing the public or representing the other interests. it's basically the fbi or the justice department saying we need this an then the judges say whether or not that's a good idea. >> all right, joe johns, thanks for keeping an eye on it for us. good lawyer. got a couple of sharp words for the british government from the guardian reporter who broke the news about the surveillance program. glenn greenwald's partner was detained under anti-terror law for nine hours. they spoke with cnn anderson cooper last night. >> all it did, as i said this
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week, is give them a huge black eye in the world and make them look thuggish interfering in the journalism process, creating international incidents with the government of brazil which is indignant over what was being done to no benefit. i believe they will groregret w they have done. it's quite incompetent and really quite dumb. >> wow. that's pretty strong stuff. british officials say they had the right to do what they did. they are suing and asking for a declaration that what authorities did are illegal. they are asking for the run of the computer and the other items confiscated. stay with us. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer's
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ampblts little bit of breaking news for you. a pretty significant day when it comes to wikileakss. the guy responsible for harvesting all that information and passing it over the wikileaks, bradley manning, he was sentencing. the military judge said 35. 35 years in prison, dishonorable discharge. for get your benefits, forget your pay. he leaked about 750,000
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classified documents to that anti-secrecy groups. he will get some credit for the roughly three and a half years he's served. he's going to be required to serve one-third of the sentence before he becomes eligible for parol. less you think that 90 years means 90 years, and 35 years, means 35 years, no. in the military system where he was prosecuted, it's almost the same as some state run kinds of courts. then there are the hearings. good behavior, et cetera. he's 25 years old. if he serves the entire amount, that will take him to he'sabout 60. pretty tough stuff. this is a very tough time for folks leaking information and being involved in those distributions of classifies materials. you can ask those folks. thanks everyone for joining us. it's been great to have you. the next program begins now.
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